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515 NHS nurses, doctors and other health professionals have written an open letter to Trump demanding a guarantee that the NHS will not be targeted in any UK-US trade talks. “We are particularly concerned about conversations over patents for pharmaceuticals and the potential for huge drug price increases for the NHS,” the letter says. “To…

Update 28.11.19Post-Brexit arrangements could dramatically increase the price of vital drugs, as I reported for Channel 4’s Dispatches. Antony Barnett NHS England’s latest performance statistics, published this week, reveal yet more missed key targets for cancer care waiting times. This means that people have long and anxious waits with the risk of their illness worsening before they…

As I discussed in recent blogs, there is a surge of new immune-oncology technologies that help the body’s immune system identify and attack cancer tumours. The precision of such technologies will be crucial to refining and personalising cancer treatment for the 21st century.

Our knowledge of cancer has greatly improved in the last two decades. This has revealed the huge variability that can be found between not only different types of cancer, but also between patients with the same type of cancer. It is now evident that there is no single ‘cure’ for cancer and it has become…